This is an update to Arent Fox Alert: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services Proposes Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information
On January 5,2000, HCFA published in the Federal Register,65 Fed.Reg.427, corrections to the Department of Health and Human Services "HHS" proposed rule for Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (64 Fed.Reg.212, Nov.3,1999).
The corrections include among others:
1) changing the language addressing the right to restrict disclosure to the right to request restrictions;
2) deleting the ability to deny a request for correction or amendment on the ground that erroneous or incomplete information would not adversely affect the individual;
3) increasing the cost of notice development figure for all entities in table 1 on page 60007 from $20 million to $30 million; and
4) increasing the total cost of the regulation in the initial or first year cost column in table 1 on page 60007 from $1,165,230,000 to $1,185,230,000.
As a reminder, the comment period to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, has been extended to February 17,2000.